Bonus Episode: Author AJ Vrana

Hey nerds!  If you listened to our final Midnight Mass episode, you heard  A. J. Vrana answer all of our vampire questions, but we also wanted to share our interview with her from this summer!

A.J. is a Serbian-Canadian academic and writer from Toronto, Canada. She lives with her two rescue cats, Moonstone and Peanut Butter, who nest in her window-side bookshelf and cast judgmental stares at nearby pigeons. She may be the smartest person we know–her doctoral research examines the supernatural in modern Japanese and former-Yugoslavian literature and its relationship to violence, and her Master of Health Studies research focuses on type 1 diabetes and emotional labour in young adults.

When not toiling away at caffeine-fueled scholarly pursuits, she enjoys jewelry-making, cupcakes, and concocting dark tales to unleash upon the world.

Listen in for our chat and then gGo check out A.J.’s Chaos Cycle Duology and and preorder their upcoming novel, Wildblood. And be sure to follow A.J. at ⁠a.j.vrana⁠

Upcoming Read-a-long Schedule:

📖December: “Wreck the Halls” by Tessa Bailey

📖December 21 - Winter Solstice: “A Court of Frost & Starlight”

📖January: “Pucking Around” by Emily Rath

Emily will be joining us for our January 16th episode!

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